Craft Proud Wall Art

Craft Proud — 3 museum-grade prints that set the mood. Bhitti chitra is Kerala's temple wall-painting tradition, flourishing from roughly the sixteenth to the nineteenth century and still painted today by trained artists who grind their own mineral and vegetable pigments. The picture shows the actual method: pigment ground on stone, mixed in shallow bowls, and laid down in flat opaque fields over a confident lamp-black line drawing — the deity on the wall is left half-drawn to reveal exactly that sequence. Mata ni Pachedi means 'the cloth of the Mother Goddess' — a shrine textile of the Vaghri / Devipujak community of Ahmedabad, Gujarat, who, historically barred from temples, painted the Goddess on cloth to create their own portable shrine. The cloths combine hand-drawn kalam (bamboo-pen) line with carved woodblock printing in natural dyes — madder red and iron-rust black on undyed cream cotton — traditionally washed in the Sabarmati.

Updated 22 Jun 2026